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professor

[pruh-fes-er] / prəˈfɛs ər /


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“I expected more booing,” said Barbara Barreiro Leon, a professor at Scotland’s Aberdeen University who attended the semifinal and who has written extensively on the contest.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

And not just by just one-tenth of a percent, points out William Silber, the former Marcus Nadler professor of finance and economics at NYU’s Stern School of Business.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

However, Smita Das, MD, PhD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford Medicine, said there is still no broad medical agreement that cannabis effectively treats these conditions.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

Lansbury is an associate professor at the University of Queensland who's been working in Tennant Creek, 500km from Alice, on public health research and housing.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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